Thrilling Singing

Elgar and Duruflé with a surprise soloist,heard by MIKE WHEELER

The more I hear Elgar's The Music Makers the more convinced I become that it's been seriously under-rated in the past. No, Arthur O'Shaunessy's poem is not great literature, but it gave Elgar the imagery he needed to make a deeply personal statement about an artist's place in society, at a time when his reputation seemed to have peaked and begun to decline.